Liberty can never be secure when the judicial branch declares its impotence. |
That decision does not benefit those innocent people in their fifth year of imprisonment. |
That ruling doesn't simply hit innocent men now in their fifth year of imprisonment. It goes to whether we have a judicial branch at all. This is that rare question so vital that the Supreme Court should immediately intervene to answer. |
They have had to take the seeds from their meals and then scratch at the soil in order to get that going. These people have been put in such a hellish situation and yet, somehow, they have found a way to create life, literally. |
They were not criminals, they were not enemies. They were a mistake. |